Shopify/react-native-skia

Health v2 · maintenance only

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8527 stars · 634 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

A React Native library that brings the Skia 2D graphics engine to mobile apps, enabling high-performance drawing, rendering, and animation. It exposes Skia's canvas primitives as React components with support for GPU-accelerated rendering.

Use cases

• draw custom shapes and paths in a react native app
• build animated charts and data visualizations on mobile
• create a signature pad or drawing app in react native
• render high-performance custom ui effects and shaders
• implement image filters and blur effects in react native
• build a custom canvas-based game or interactive graphic

When to choose

• you need pixel-level custom drawing or gpu-accelerated graphics in react native
• standard react native views and reanimated can't achieve the visual effects or performance you need
• you want a declarative react api over the same engine that powers chrome and flutter

When to avoid

• your app only needs standard ui components and layouts
• you need 3d graphics rather than 2d rendering
• you are not building with react native

Facets

library · maturity active

graphics animation ui-components mobile-development frontend graphics cross-platform cross-platform skia react-native 2d-graphics canvas drawing android ios

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